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Eight Years On (Steyn on 9/11)
Steyn Online ^ | 9/11 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/11/2009 4:54:52 PM PDT by xzins

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1 posted on 09/11/2009 4:54:52 PM PDT by xzins
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Eight years later and we have a Kenyan Marxist President from Kenya. Great!

Oh, forget about the value of the money you’ve saved.


2 posted on 09/11/2009 4:59:10 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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* years after 9-11 and we have a Moslem president. Do you suppose the Jihad has won?


3 posted on 09/11/2009 5:06:34 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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What a small number of brave civilians did on Flight 93 was magnificent.

I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't have been better off in the long run had that plane hit the Capitol building as planned.

4 posted on 09/11/2009 5:12:06 PM PDT by EricT. ("Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." -George Washington)
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I really cant say, but I don’t think so. Much depends on the action of the next few months.

I saw Steve Forbes on Covuto when he expressed that this was US socialism’s last gasp. Hope he’s correct.

All of this stuff can evaporate when the BEAST starves.

Pray.


5 posted on 09/11/2009 5:14:27 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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Beck’s show played a collage of sounds and images from 9-11. It was all I could do to keep it together when I thought of the years gone by and where we have ended up.

I really wanted Fox to replay Tony Snow’s remarks at the end of his show after 9-11 (Fox News Sunday I think).
I want to find a transcript.


6 posted on 09/11/2009 5:21:48 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: EricT.

Yes, that thought occurs to me occasionally, too.

There was one brief moment when they were all out on the steps singing “God Bless America,” but within two weeks, the Dems started to blame the US for being attacked and converted the whole thing into a lefty political circus. It’s unreal when you look back on it.


7 posted on 09/11/2009 5:34:53 PM PDT by livius
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Bambi isn’t any more Muslim than he is African American. He’s Muslim identified, though, and he has spent nearly two decades trying to be accepted as African American.

He probably doesn’t practice Islam at all, but deep down inside, he sees this as part of his persona because he hates the US and this is a way of expressing it. He’s not African American, either (he’s not a descendant of Africans sold by the Arabs and brought here against their will as slaves), but he has also worked hard to create this persona for himself, spending 20 years in Rev Wright’s hate whitey church and consciously seeking to marry somebody he regarded as authentically “African American” (which she is).

I don’t know who won. I think the jihadis believe they have won, and the Marxists believe they have won, and to some extent, both of them have, because they can coexist. But they rode in on a sociopathic horse, and I think Obama is going to flip out one of these days, buck them off and trample both of them. He wants to rule them. And we shall see what happens then.


8 posted on 09/11/2009 5:43:44 PM PDT by livius
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Obama is not properly even very black African. The Luo tribe of his African roots is in large part of Arab origin.
9 posted on 09/11/2009 5:50:03 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: xzins

One more reason to be a Steyn fan (as if I needed one): he has Golden Retrievers:

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2428/26/

- Jp


10 posted on 09/11/2009 5:52:10 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Government cannot make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - Sarah Heath Palin)
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I saw those. They are too cute.


11 posted on 09/11/2009 5:58:42 PM PDT by Excellence (Meet your new mother-in-law, the United States Government)
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To: EricT.

My sense, learned over these past 2 decades, is that our Congress is a corrupt lot of elitists.

I cannot imagine a more unworthy group to deal with issues such as health care and war.

They aren’t deserving of the sacrifices made for them in the field on this day....much less that heroic sacrifice on flight 93.

Do I wish them dead? No.

But I surely wish them, republicans and democrats alike, out of office. If fright alone would have caused that, it would be worth considering.


12 posted on 09/11/2009 6:01:39 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: EricT.
I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't have been better off in the long run had that plane hit the Capitol building as planned.

I wonder if we would have rebuilt the capitol dome? It's a fair question. We haven't done squat in rebuilding the twin towers -- an act of defiance that our enemies could not deny.

13 posted on 09/11/2009 6:16:00 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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So the prime minister who dispatched soldiers of the Queen to Afghanistan and elsewhere cannot defend core civilizational values either in his own country or at Yale.

No. Most of our "elite" can't define what a core civilizational value is.

The president of the United States congratulates himself on his fearlessness in standing up for the right of a woman to choose to wear a hijab but won't say a word about the young Muslim girls murdered by their families in America, Canada, Britain, Sweden, Germany, and around the world for choosing not to wear a hijab.

Nor will any of our journalists either. Nor will any of our academics. Nor will any of our political class.

Find me someone who can define what a core civilizational value is, and find me someone who is willing to speak up about the right of young muslim girls to be able to live free without being murdered by their husbands or their parents, and I'll back that person for president.

I don't care what party they are from, I'm there.

As it is, most of our "elite" only favor parental rights if it involves handing someone over to a muslim or a communist. Anyone notice that the governor of Ohio has called for the girl in Florida to be returned home?

Disgusting.

14 posted on 09/11/2009 6:16:29 PM PDT by marron
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I’m not big on memorials.

Deliver Bin Ladin’s head on a pike.

Re-build the twin towers 20 stories higher.

Plant a cherry grove in the field in Pennsyvania, and be done with it.

More important is making sure it doesn’t happen again.


15 posted on 09/11/2009 6:20:02 PM PDT by marron
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I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't have been better off in the long run had that plane hit the Capitol building as planned.

Thank you for saying that. I've thought it from 9/11. And more and more since, because of the politicians' weasley reactions. What if about half of Congress had been wiped out that day? Think they would have a different attitude? But we can't talk about that. It wouldn't be politically correct.

16 posted on 09/11/2009 6:25:13 PM PDT by Free State Four
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BUMP!


17 posted on 09/11/2009 6:42:10 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: marron

I’m not big on memorials.

Deliver Bin Ladin’s head on a pike.

Re-build the twin towers 20 stories higher.

Plant a cherry grove in the field in Pennsyvania, and be done with it.

More important is making sure it doesn’t happen again.

Bump.


18 posted on 09/11/2009 7:24:17 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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Listen to Steyn interviewed weekly on Hugh Hewitt’s show. It’s always great.


19 posted on 09/11/2009 7:55:34 PM PDT by Competition clutch
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I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't have been better off in the long run had that plane hit the Capitol building as planned.

Me too.

20 posted on 09/11/2009 8:08:08 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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